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Bully Boy to Make Stud Season at Michigan Farm Popular Detroit Performer Will Arrive at Dama Nursery in July DETROIT, Mich., June 14. Bully Boy, a son of Bull Dog, who did some of his best racing in Detroit, is coming back from Kentucky to stand at stud for benefit of the Michigan breeding industry. He will arrive about the first of July and will reside at Dama Farms, a modern thoroughbred establishment near Howell, Mich. President Dale Shaffer of the Detroit Race Course owns Bully Boy and the plans for his transfer from Kentucky to Michigan were made in an agreement reached today among Shaffer; Dr. Harry W. Lindy, president of the Michigan Thoroughbred Owners Association, and Carney Matheson of Dama Farms. Management of Bully Boy in the stud will be done hy Matheson and Dr. Lindy, with ownership under the new plan divided among the three parties; Shaffer will not participate in any profits from the horses services. Bully Boy holds the track record of 1:41 for a mile and 70 yards at the Detroit Race Course, and in 1952 won both the Michigan Mile and Frontier Handicap. .His record in competition and his bloodlines make his forthcoming arrival the most important thing that has happened in years to the fast-growing breeding industry in Michigan. Bull Dog, the sire, is regarded by almost every expert as one of the most valuable horses ever imported into the United States. Bull Dog was the sire of Bull Lea, among others, and Bull Leas offspring have produced more stakes winners than any, sire in history. Duringl954, Bully Boy was introduced to the stud for the first time at C. A. Kenneys Shady Side Farms, the same farm that has Noor, Johns Joy and Great Circle. In his first season, Bully Boy filled a full book of stud service, with the first foals due in 1955. He has proven himself to be an unusually potent stud horse. About half of the mares brought to him this year were Michigan-owned, and the transfer to Michigan followed the request of Michigan thoroughbred owners who asked the switch because of the great response and to ease the expense of transportation and boarding. Current plans are to limit the book to 30 mares in 1955.
